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United States Patent | 5,049,947 |
Fish ,   et al. | September 17, 1991 |
An automatic printing machine which forms an image on a sheet substrate has a multi-mode sheet output station in the form of a brush decision gate having a bidirectionally rotatable cylindrical fibrous brush to direct sheets upwardly over the top of the brush in a first sheet transport path when rotated in a counter clockwise direction and downwardly under the bottom of the brush in a second sheet transport path when rotated in a clockwise direction, the brush being selectively rotated in a clockwise and counter clockwise direction.
Inventors: | Fish; David J. (Webster, NY); Sturnick; Gerard R. (Rochester, NY); Sardano; Peter A. (Fairport, NY) |
Assignee: | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) |
Appl. No.: | 375180 |
Filed: | July 3, 1989 |
Current U.S. Class: | 399/402; 271/186; 271/291; 271/902; 399/353 |
Intern'l Class: | G03G 021/00 |
Field of Search: | 355/308,309,313,318,319,321,322 271/902,186,291 |
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Xerox Disclosure Journal, vol. 4, No. 3, "Paddle Wheel Inverter", D. N. Hawkins and G. J. Roller, May/Jun. 1979. Xerox Disclosure Journal, David N. Hawkins et al., vol. 4, No. 3, May/Jun. 1979 titled "Bristle Roll Inverter". IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 31, No. 8, Jan. 1989, pp. 379-380, New York, U.S.; "Duplexing for multi-width sheet requirements" *p. 380, paragaraph 2; figure*. Patent Abstracts of Japan, vol. 10, No. 368 (M-543( [2425], Dec. 9, 1986; & JP-A-61 162457 (Fuji Xerox) 07-23-1986. |